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    registered with the state, which modifies them to ensure they receive only approved channels. As another witness said of life in the nation: ‘You are brainwashed, [you] don't know life outside. You are brainwashed from the time you know how to talk, about four years of age, from nursery school, brainwashing through education, this happens everywhere in life, society, even at home.’” Napoleon and…

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    Helen killer claimed that “character cannot be developed in ease and quite only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved “ , so should we say that our society is patirarcle or not , but it is demanding in every situation ? , this essay discusses the issues of suppression of men’s emotional expression in the patriarchal society it also identifies the solutions of the these issues , And one the main points we would consider…

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    Bond was born on May 19, 1934 at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh. He is the eldest son of late Aubrey Alexander Bond, a British officer in Royal Air Force in India. His sister Ellen was a little handicapped child with defective vision and initial signs of epilepsy. Ellen lived with Granny (Grandmother) and brother William at Calcutta, but Bond grew-up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun and Simla. He is the most popular and sensitive contemporary short story writer of our times. He wrote his first short…

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    First Reading: “Don’t You Think It’s Time to Start Thinking?” By Northrop Frye Frye (year?) is talking about critical thinking as a means in which to discern the difference between reading and writing for basic knowledge, and the more effective use of articulated methods of reading and writing as way of expressing more complex thought processes: “Most students need to be taught, very carefully and patiently, that there is no such thing as an inarticulate idea waiting to have the right words…

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    1984 by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that was first published in 1949. The story was meant to serve as a prediction of the future and was Orwell’s way of warning against dictators and a totalitarian society. Totalitarianism is “a form of rule in which the government attempts to maintain 'total ' control over society, including all aspects of the public and private lives of its citizens” ("Totalitarianism”). The main character is Winston Smith and the book tells his story through a…

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    In 1933, a new era of safety and prosperity began for the people of Germany. For the coming years, crime was nearly nonexistent; it was a far cry from the atmosphere they had known in the years following the First World War. Furthermore, they once again had a powerful currency with legitimate value unlike before when the only good use for a Deutsche Mark was as kindling for fires. Likewise. there was a general mood of happiness that overcame the population of the country, and even furthering…

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    This paper explores two published articles that highlight the key components on self-actualization (SA) and reaching optimum human potential. The article that was assigned for reading, is written in a very black and white format that wraps ideas around examples only modern societies could easily relate with, whereas the article that I personally chose, demonstrated an investigation of ideas between Western psychology and the Buddhist tradition of Theravada. Contrastingly, the assigned article…

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    There are always eyes watching and the voice makes one feel as in they are suffocating. Whether asleep or awake, indoors or outdoors, in the bath or bed, there is no escape. Nothing was ones’ own except a few centimeters of their mind. 1984 by George Orwell, which was written in 1949, is an exciting story set in the future where everything and everyone is controlled by a higher power. The higher power goes by the name of Big Brother, and, no matter where people go, they are always being…

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    ) Chapter seven starts with Smith writing in his journal about how he believes that if there were to be a revolution it would be in the hands of the proles to inaugurate. It goes then to him looking through a children 's history book and reading how the Party claims to have improved living situations drastically since the war, which Smith interprets as false information, although he has no actual proof, besides the fact that the ‘ideal cities’ they allegedly created are actually decaying and…

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    The citizens of Orwell’s 1984 and the members of Ephrata Cloister believed that the society and community they lived in was utopian, when in reality it was clearly dystopian. The difference between a utopian society and a dystopian society is that a utopia is the place or state of things in which everything is perfect and dystopia is the place or state of things in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. As the SciPhiShow said, “In the…

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